May 23, 2016
A small glitch in the analytics accounts of YouTube creators caused some of them to appear to be instant millionaires Monday morning.
Dreams of grandeur with new beach houses and diving into piles of gold – a la Scrooge McDuck – unfortunately will be just that – dreams.
The glitch in YouTube’s analytics was specifically tied to their YouTube Red Revenue calculations and caused videos with even just a handful of views to estimate tens of thousands of dollars in revenue. While the console does state that all dollar amounts are estimates, some of the estimates topped millions of dollars.
On Monday May 23rd, 2016 YouTube's analytics experienced a glitch that over estimated revenue earned.
I think YouTube might be a tad bit off with my Estimated Revenue xD pic.twitter.com/TSUOCrqGSG
— Deburke321 (@Deburke321) May 23, 2016
According to youtube I made 22 Million dollars in revenue the other day lmaoooo pic.twitter.com/SmcnI3DooL
— Sims3loser (@Sims3loser) May 23, 2016
Youtube Revenue right now xD
— LittleMarMan (@LittleMarMan) May 23, 2016
I'm a millionaire boys. pic.twitter.com/s0m10Kvp2w
No statement regarding the reporting glitch has been released by YouTube so far. For now YouTubers will be able to dream of how they would spend all of their new found wealth until the reporting glitch has been corrected.
